Chapter 172: Ambushes Rise
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Sun Chuanting was on the north bank of the Jindi River, while anxiously urging the auxiliary soldiers to build a temporary bridge, and at the same time sent people to check the battle situation in front of him, and after the people sent back, they all said that the Liaodong army under the command of Wu Sangui was very brave and was attacking the thief army on the other side of the river, but the thief army was also very strong, and they did not retreat in battle. (.. )
So Sun Chuanting began to be suspicious again, the performance of the Xingtian Army was a bit abnormal, only 2,000 men and horses, facing the nearly 40,000 troops under his command, the disparity in strength, anyone could see that they were fighting a desperate battle like this, even if their Xingtian Army's soldiers were very fierce, but they were still people, even if they could use one as ten, but in the end it was impossible to win, and they fought to the death like this, there are only two possibilities, one possibility is that the main force of their Xingtian Army is attacking Jining with all their might, The thief chief Xiao Tianjian issued a death order to stop the official army led by Sun Chuanting here, even if it was a fight, it didn't matter.
The second is that the thief army is likely to be still playing tricks, and there is no way that there will be a full set set up by the Xingtian Army in this vicinity, and this group of thieves is likely to buy time for the main force of the thief army to come.
In the end, Sun Chuanting felt that no matter what the situation was, the most important thing was to defeat the thief army on the other side of the river and clear the passage in front of them.
So Sun Chuanting was anxious and ordered his cavalry to step up to cross the river and rush to the battlefield, and ordered the auxiliary soldiers to speed up the construction of a temporary bridge to transport the heavy artillery across the river.
When in the afternoon, there were two temporary bridges built first, Sun Chuanting impatiently urged the soldiers to transport heavy artillery across the river, and the big Fulong machine guns and Hongyi cannons with the army were pushed to the river, under the traction of mules and horses and the promotion of manpower, it was difficult and slow to start crossing the river, the general cannon (large Fulong machine gun) was a little better, and the weight was slightly lighter, but Wu Sangui pulled the heavy Hongyi cannons from outside the pass was difficult to do, each cannon was equipped with more than a dozen mules and horses, and hundreds of people to cooperate, In order to push them, and the temporary bridge is a temporary bridge after all, it is obviously a little difficult to bear such a large weight of the Hongyi cannon, so the cannon crosses the river very slowly, and one of the Hongyi cannons is even more on the temporary bridge, and the temporary bridge collapses on the spot, and even the Hongyi cannon is also fallen into the river.
Sun Chuanting angrily ordered on the spot to drag out the general who was responsible for building this temporary bridge, and more than a dozen auxiliary soldiers responsible for building this temporary bridge were also pushed out and beheaded, and he also ordered to quickly send someone to drag the Hongyi cannon ashore to deal with the Xingtian Army, the most effective thing is probably this Hongyi cannon, and no one can be lost!
So a large group of people poured into the river, tying ropes and dragging, the entire river bank was in chaos, and even Sun Chuanting's attention was attracted to the river, and he personally ran to the river to supervise and tow the Hongyi cannon, so that the attention of many people and horses was focused on the river bank, and gradually relaxed their vigilance around them.
It was also at this time that there was a night when Pegasus came to report to Sun Chuanting, but because there were too many officers and soldiers blocking the road, they could not get close to Sun Chuanting. The one who stands in the way is also a capital crime! Get out of the way! ”
In this way, it was not easy for them to find Sun Chuanting, and they ran to Sun Chuanting in a panic all night, shouting: "Master Qiqi! The little ones found a large number of thieves in the west of the Tuxiao River, which was only seven or eight miles away from us! Please make a quick decision! ”
After hearing this, Sun Chuanting only felt that the blood was surging upward, his head was dizzy, he stumbled and almost fell on the spot, but fortunately he was supported by the guards next to him, so he did not fall to the ground.
Now Sun Chuanting understands that this is simply the strategy of the Xingtian Army, first using a weak brigade to lure Ma Dazhi to win a small victory, so as to cover up the abnormality of the large number of activities they found in the thief army scouts before, so that they feel that there is no big problem ahead, and set off to cross the river on the bank of the Jindi River, and then block the road on the other side with a small number of elites, forcing them to focus their attention on the south bank of the Jindi River, in fact, all this is an illusion, it is to attract his attention, in fact, a large number of thieves have already been ambushed around, Just waiting for the officers and troops to launch an attack on them when they are halfway crossed, so that their officers and troops are blocked by the river, and it is difficult to take care of each other, and the result is ......
Sun Chuanting was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly ordered to immediately cross the river and order Wu Sangui to quickly gather his troops, first stabilize the position on the south bank of the river, and on the side of his north bank, he immediately sent troops to the west to prepare for the battle, if possible, they can still hold out here for a while, and ordered Ma Ke and Bai Guangen's troops to immediately lead their troops to come to support and attack the Xingtian Army from behind.
But if I didn't close it at night, I still found that the main force of the Xingtian Army was late, and Sun Chuanting's adjustment was already late, just when the north bank of the river was in chaos, Wu Sangui's department on the south bank of the river had begun to collapse, and the fireworks that pulled smoke rose into the sky, passing towards the distance one after another, and at this time on the other side, from behind a village, once again killed a group of people and horses of the Xingtian Army, and rushed towards Wu Sangui's department like a tsunami.
Wu Sangui's men and horses were already at the end of the crossbow, and when they were counterattacked by Liu Yao's subordinates just now, they showed a defeat, and now when they found that there were thieves entering the battlefield, the army was in chaos, and thousands of officers and soldiers rushed to turn around and flee, and Liu Yaoben led the rest of the troops to follow closely behind to cover up the past.
The so-called defeat is like a mountain, at this time by Wu Sangui's subordinates vividly interpreted, the generals scattered their hearts, only cared about the road and fled, where can anyone stop them, one by one only hated their father and mother gave them two legs, and fled towards the Jindi River.
Wu Sangui was also horrified to find that things had reversed, so he hurriedly ordered to block these routs, re-formed the formation to block the attack of the Xingtian Army, and in a blink of an eye, the offensive became defensive, if it was replaced by the Xingtian Army, it was estimated that there would be a chance to be reorganized, but Wu Sangui's Liaodong Army, most of them had done things on the battlefield to escape, and they were also quite brave when fighting a good battle, but once they were defeated, they might have a fight with the officers and troops in the mainland.
Wu Sangui led the Jiading team to kill a group of defeated soldiers, but they could not prevent the collapse of the army, thousands of defeated troops instantly drowned them, enveloped them, and retreated towards the Jindi River together, Wu Sangui's heart was full of hesitation at this time, he couldn't think of these mud-legged thieves, why were they so fierce and incomparable, facing enemies several times their size, but they could fight to the death as if they were at home, and finally completely overwhelmed their soldiers and horses with their will, Now there is actually a group of thieves hiding in the vicinity that is not too far away, so that he has been paying attention to this thief army that has appeared, and he has not been able to pay too much attention to the surrounding area at all, but now it is good, they have superior forces, but they are chased by the inferior forces of the Heavenly Thieves like rabbits, but as the chief officer, he can't recover this decline at all.
Liu Yaoben led his troops and the remaining men and horses sent by Xiao Tianjian to converge together, like a huge net, chasing and killing Wu Sangui's rout, all the firecrackers stopped firing, stuck the short blade on the gun, and launched a white-edged charge, in this era, although firearms have gradually begun to dominate the battlefield, but to really solve the problem, many times it is still necessary to rely on hand-to-hand white-knuckle combat to solve, who has high morale, who is brave may achieve the final victory, At this time, the generals of the Xingtian Army can be said to be like a rainbow in morale, and the depression that was previously suppressed and beaten by the officials and soldiers has long been swept away, and they have a new force to join, and they are even more fierce, chasing the officers and soldiers to slash and kill, chasing them towards the Jindi River like driving pigs and sheep.
At the same time, on the north bank of the Jindi River, the officers and troops also began to be in chaos, from the direction of the Tuxiao River, there was a shocking shout of killing, and a large number of Xingtian troops began to appear from the Tuxiao River, and flew in groups to kill the officers and soldiers gathered on the bank of the Jindi River.
Sun Chuanting hurriedly mobilized his troops and wanted to deploy defenses, but it was easier said than done, because of the reason for crossing the river, the formation of many soldiers and horses had been chaotic, and it was not easy to mobilize such chaotic soldiers and horses for a while!
Therefore, compared to the men and horses of the Xingtian Army who killed the generals like a whirlwind, the officers and soldiers on this side seemed to be out of order, behaved unexpectedly, and could even be said to be out of order, some wanted to run, some wanted to form a formation to defend, and some people wanted to attack, but most of the officers and troops were in a state of panic at this point, and their morale had fallen a lot.
Sun Chuanting ordered the gunners who had not yet crossed the river to quickly pull the cannon up the golden embankment, and set up artillery to bombard the Xingtian army, which played a certain role, when a large number of the Xingtian army killed, dozens of cannons of various types have been erected on the golden embankment, and began to fire at the Xingtian army, after the cannonballs flew out, as long as they fell into the team of the Xingtian army, it immediately set off a blood rain, but the cannons of this era, after all, the use of flowering shells is very few, and it is very unsafe, solid bullets are the main types of cannons, although it looks very majestic, but the lethality of the personnel is not too great, so although this kind of shelling caused some casualties to the Xingtian Army, but it did not stop the attack of the Xingtian Army, and a large number of Xingtian Army still braved the artillery fire and continued to shout and kill the earthquake and rushed forward.